This week brings another example of how quickly science and technology are providing new opportunities and risks related to new products...

The Canadian government announced on Thursday its plan to move forward to ban future uses of asbestos, and to more tightly regulate the...

Burford Capital is acquiring Gerchen Keller, as described in a December 14, 2016 article in the Wall Street Journal. According to the...

It appears Canada soon will be implementing some phased in form of a “complete ban” on asbestos, according to a December 9, 2016 article...

Another part of the complexity of asbestos litigation lies in the efforts of some to shut down former makers of asbestos containing...

Lawsuits against law firms continue to be part of the increasing complexities of asbestos litigation. A recent example arises from...

Mealey’s recently highlighted the latest example of financiers and entrepreneurial claiming creating change in the asbestos litigation...

The last 10 days have been notably adverse for product liability defendants. One big defense side loss arrived through the California...

ACI’s 22nd Asbestos Claims & Litigation forum, January 12-13 at the Union League of Philadelphia, is an event where law, science, and...

It’s not been a good run of days for asbestos defendants and other current and former sellers of alleged toxins. Yesterday,  under the...

Even the Financial Times picked up on the 18% increase in asbestos losses that A.M. Best predicted for insurers; its article was on...

A projected 18% increase in insurance company asbestos losses was announced yesterday by A.M. Best. Some of us are not surprised. Indeed,...

2016 has not been a good year for defendants in asbestos cases. The point has been illustrated several times. A prime example is the...

Resolute’s asbestos claims management is in the gunsights of many, for multiple reasons. Resolute just took a notable discovery hit from...

Elections of course bring changes in courts and legislatures, and various arguments and theories about what may happen. For tort system...

It’s been quite the past few weeks and months for communiques from Russia. The newest one relevant to this blog is a November 14, 2016...

Science, law and mass torts are increasingly intersecting and driving change.  The cancer research and medical communities are currently...

The Napoli Bern saga continues, and Bloomberg provided a refreshed description of the saga in a November 7, 2016 story titled Hell is...

A new study highlights an irony as to the value (or not) of damages caps in medical malpractice cases as a tool for adjusting the supply...

In a sign of the times, Kevin LaCroix at D & O Diary published an October 12, 2016 post titled:  “Book Review: An Updated Global Guide to...